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# Get things ready

All the below items are required for the tutorial. Most items are supplied by SBT in a bundle.

Note that the Vitroids**™** discs must be procured from Sigma/Merck. The additional items are standard consumables in a microbiological lab.

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## Hardware

* [BactoBox® setup](https://help.sbtinstruments.com/items/bactobox-r#bactobox-r-setup) including a [flow cell](https://help.sbtinstruments.com/items/consumables/flow-cell) with at least one remaining measurements.
  * HW: [7.6a](/item-register/bactobox-r/bactobox-r-hardware-changelog.md)
  * SW: ≥ v2026.02a
* Marker (not shown; not supplied)
* Vortex mixer (not supplied)
* Rack for holding 15 mL centrifuge vials (not supplied)
* Small vial, e.g. 1.5 mL Eppendorf tube (not supplied)
* P200 pipette (not supplied)
* Sterile pipette tips (not supplied).

## Reagents

* Certified reference material (CRM): [*Escherichia coli* WDCM 00013 Vitroids<sup>™</sup>](https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/DK/en/product/sial/vt000137) (not supplied).
* 1 × [dilution vial](https://help.sbtinstruments.com/items/vials-flasks-and-liquids/dilution-vial) ready-to-use.
* 1 × [disinfection vial](https://help.sbtinstruments.com/items/vials-flasks-and-liquids/disinfection-vial).

## Summary

With these things in hand, you are ready to for the next step: [Transfer disc](/tutorials/measure-vitroid-tm-disc/transfer-vitroid-tm-disc.md).


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